Bearskin Bedroll vs. Bedroll

[Shady 8 Rounds]

At what point (% durability wise) would you trade your bearskin bedroll for a normal 100% bedroll? Knowing you have to find a good spot in Blackrock to hunt a bear to repair it.

Not a super serious question, just wondering what people thought.

[Blizzard Walker]

Both bedrolls are worth having in inventory in satisfactory condition. I carry both the normal bedroll and bearskin bedroll from region to region. Once established at a base I will carry one or the other depending upon my goal for the immediate next few days. Presently at Day 800+ on Voyageur I am careful to keep two normal bedrolls in good enough repair so that they are available when needed. Beyond 500 days any further normal bedrolls I find are ruined and are immediately converted to cloth.

[[UGUU]Butonz]

Wiki seiz:

Bedrolls decay at 0.2% durability per day and 0.1% per hour of sleep when used.

Bearskin bedrolls decay at 0.271% durability per day and 0.068% per hour when used.

The first decay rate is in effect whether you use the bed roll or not. If your Bearskin bedroll is below 5% you can would still still have enough time to set it aside, hunt a bear, and cure the hide for 12 days to repair it. A Bearskin bedrool, unused, will lose 3.25% durability over that same 12 day period.

I think >.>

[Shady 8 Rounds]

I had a 1,000+ day voyager save before the dlc's. I'm like 250 back into this run. My bearskin bedroll is at 22%. Down at this low condition, it doesn't seem much warmer yet remains significantly heavier (without any research or even actually paying attention to the numbers, just inside my own head atm) I left the 100% bedroll at bricklayers sanctuary or whatever. Have been running around blackrock with the bearskin. I don't remember this region all that well. Not like Mystery Lake, Coastal Highway or Pleasant Valley. I just dont want it to go ruined and have no bedroll for god knows how far to get another. The weight of carrying both rolls is an insane idea to me. hahah

[wolfen]

Not sure if I'm missing something about the bear bed roll? Have nearly 2k hours across platforms on loper and never use it - The weight is just too much. Also, I have been sleeping back of caves with 20+ clothes and no fire since forever and never froze. I'm sure it has it's benefits - Is it better early game - like can you sleep in a car with no fire just using? It has extra health re-gen too right?

[wolfen]

^^ good point - hadn't been thinking of it like that lol - if no normal ones left in world, being able to craft one is a life saver. Had one ruined by a wolf attack in TWM ages ago from an old bug - was left open in deer clearing cave, got wolfed outside then upon returning to cave it was at 0%. RNG for damage to bedrolls is weird tho - never seems to get much from struggles etc these days.

[David]

Originally posted by wolfen:

Not sure if I'm missing something about the bear bed roll? Have nearly 2k hours across platforms on loper and never use it - The weight is just too much. Also, I have been sleeping back of caves with 20+ clothes and no fire since forever and never froze. I'm sure it has it's benefits - Is it better early game - like can you sleep in a car with no fire just using? It has extra health re-gen too right?

Agree. I've never in over 2,500 hours of play on Interloper used a bear bedroll...

Originally posted by JayXL:

I feel like the true benefit of the bear bedroll is to be able to craft a bedroll if all others are ruined. If I have a choice, I'm going with the standard bedroll every time. But this time, with my oversight and bad luck, I found myself in a situation where I had no standard bedroll option left. That's why the bear bedroll exists. I don't feel like it's a "this or that" option, I feel like it's more of a "no other choice" option.

...but agree with Jay that it's nice to know I could. :)

[Gruff]

Dont think anyone mentioned this. But the bearskin bedroll also creates bear smell. Which means wolves are more likely to run than attack. Also makes sleeping in caves safer as the wolves wont (hopefully) come in the cave whilst you are trying to sleep.

Also I'm on a new loper run and had to make a bearskin bedroll as I just couldn't find a normal one. Which was to say the least hard going to begin with. Was about day 75 before I found a normal bedroll. What fun

[Shady 8 Rounds]

At 100% the bearskin seems to offer a huge warmth benefit over the normal bedroll. Allowing you to just jump into the bearskin even on the ground out in the open and ride out a storm you were caught in for a couple few hours with no fire. But as it gets lower in condition not so much haha. The mentioned predator deterrence perk of the bearskin is also a large plus in my book. It's just soo heavy.

[David]

Originally posted by Gruff:

Dont think anyone mentioned this. But the bearskin bedroll also creates bear smell. Which means wolves are more likely to run than attack. Also makes sleeping in caves safer as the wolves wont (hopefully) come in the cave whilst you are trying to sleep.

Is the deterrant effect greater for the bedroll than for the bearskin coat? I find my 2x bearskin coat loadout deters wolves sometimes, but not too frequently.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

I was under the impression the wolfskin coat scared away wolves and the bearskin coat just had high defense and warmth values. Bearskin coat doesnt say anything in the description about scaring off predators

[David]

Originally posted by Shady 8 Rounds:

I was under the impression the wolfskin coat scared away wolves and the bearskin coat just had high defense and warmth values. Bearskin coat doesnt say anything in the description about scaring off predators

It does though. Although not often.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

Hmmm... I did not know this. I don't make the bearskin coats often due to their weight.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

Got my bearskin (only 9-10 revolver shots to the head and upper body, but i got it lol) curing for the repair and only down to 15% on my bedroll. Lasted longer than I thought it would. :)